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Orbital

by Samantha Harvey

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Dec 22, 2025 08:48AM

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The Story Of The Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels: Maturity, Old Age: Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)

by Elena Ferrante

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Nov 28, 2025 10:50AM

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The Cost of Discipleship

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Briynne’s Quotes

“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

tags: criticism, exaggeration, long-book, overpraising, praise, reading, reading-books, reviewing

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“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

tags: friends, humor, people

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“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“It makes logical sense that 168 is a greater number than 17, so why would you shelve 168 first? Because a librarian is always right. To the common man, this looks wrong, but to the librarian, this is right, because a librarian is never wrong.”
― Scott Douglas

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